Red Emma’s

This groundbreaking study, 25 years in the making, followed a group of almost 800 predominantly low-income Baltimore school children, correlating their adult outcomes with the effects of an early life in communities of poverty.  Painting a grim picture confirming many of our fears about dwindling intergenerational mobility, the study also conclusively demonstrates the effects of race and gender discrimination on the lives of children coming of age in Baltimore's disinvested communities, in addition to the formidable challenges posed by class. Alexander and his colleaugues have provided an essential reference point for political activism and policy making that needs to be reckoned with by anyone working for economic justice in Baltimore City.